Exhibitions
Laura Jane Petelko: Recent Works
GBS Fine Art are proud to announce the first solo exhibition in Europe of recent work by Canadian photographer, Laura Jane Petelko.
GBS Fine Art are proud to announce the first solo exhibition in Europe of recent work by Canadian photographer, Laura Jane Petelko.
Petelko started her career in Vancouver as apprentice, then master printer, for Pacific coast based photographic artists such as Harmony Korine and Ed Ruscha. Now recognised for her own work of emotive sincerity and intimate and tender subject matter organised within the parameters of ongoing series, this exhibition will concentrate on two in particular: for Endless Gone (2019-ongoing), following a 3 year period confronting a prognosis of impending blindness (since lifted), she began to use in-camera abstraction to dissolve all the specifics of landscape, subverting photography’s typical relationship with detail, information and resolution. And then the Ma (2020) series was shot during the pandemic - outside and at a distance - in collaboration with dancers from the National Ballet of Canada, themselves obviously stripped of their natural outlet to perform at the time, with the intention of transcending that bleak moment and the confines of the reality, that we were all living through.
The exhibition will continue at the gallery in Wells through until January 11th 2025.
Petelko started her career in Vancouver as apprentice, then master printer, for Pacific coast based photographic artists such as Harmony Korine and Ed Ruscha. Now recognised for her own work of emotive sincerity and intimate and tender subject matter organised within the parameters of ongoing series, this exhibition will concentrate on two in particular: for Endless Gone (2019-ongoing), following a 3 year period confronting a prognosis of impending blindness (since lifted), she began to use in-camera abstraction to dissolve all the specifics of landscape, subverting photography’s typical relationship with detail, information and resolution. And then the Ma (2020) series was shot during the pandemic - outside and at a distance - in collaboration with dancers from the National Ballet of Canada, themselves obviously stripped of their natural outlet to perform at the time, with the intention of transcending that bleak moment and the confines of the reality, that we were all living through.
The exhibition will continue at the gallery in Wells through until January 11th 2025.
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